FL FL - OSCAR RAY BOLIN, Tampa, 1980's

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January 7, 2016:


Lloyd Sowers FOX 13Verified account ‏@lloydsowers 3h3 hours ago
Last meal for Oscar Ray Bolin: Rib Eye Steak, baked potato, salad, garlic bread, lemon pie, Coke

Dan SullivanVerified account ‏@TimesDan 3h3 hours ago Florida, USA
Heading into the prison. No phones allowed. Will tweet when it's over. #OscarRayBolin @TB_Times

Kendra Conlon ‏@KendraWTSP 1h1 hour ago
Protestors at FL State Prison where Oscar Ray Bolin is set to die by lethal injection for 3 murders in '86 #wtsp

Gloria Gomez, FOX 13Verified account ‏@ggome13 48m48 minutes ago
Still waiting to hear from US Supreme Court on whether or not they will grant a stay of execution for killer Oscar Ray Bolin #deathwatch

Chris GeidnerVerified account ‏@chrisgeidner 45m45 minutes ago
40 minutes after Florida was free to start Oscar Ray Bolin's execution, we're still waiting on #SCOTUS. http://www.buzzfeed.com/chrismcdanie...io#.lxYoOrw0J8 …

Michael PaluskaVerified account ‏@MichaelPaluska 29m29 minutes ago
Eerie, chilly night at Florida State Prison. Fate of Oscar Ray Bolin still TBD by SCOTUS. @abcactionnews

WPEC CBS12 NewsVerified account ‏@CBS12 8m8 minutes ago
#OscarRayBolin execution is waiting on @USSupremeCourt to rule on his last appeal.

Cathy ‏@courtchatter 3m3 minutes ago
Cathy Retweeted Kendra Conlon
Kendra Conlon @KendraWTSP
.@FL_Corrections confirms Oscar Ray Bolin has NOT yet been executed. Still waiting for @USSupremeCourt ruling #WTSP

Chris Boyd ‏@CMB_News 2m2 minutes ago
90 minutes after #OscarRayBolin execution was slated to start there is still no word from #SCOTUS. In a holding pattern.

Gloria Gomez, FOX 13Verified account ‏@ggome13 3m3 minutes ago
US Supreme Court has no time limit on when they can rule on stay of execution for killer Oscar Ray Bolin Could be hours could be days.

Gloria Gomez, FOX 13Verified account ‏@ggome13 14m14 minutes ago
Death penaltyexpert says High court has granted temporary stay while they review case. So for now Killer Oscar Ray Bolin's execution on hold

 

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Oscar Ray Bolin's execution delayed pending appeal

"...His execution was scheduled for 6 p.m., but the execution was delayed while officials await word from the U.S. Supreme Court, who will decide whether to grant a last-minute stay..."

http://www.baynews9.com/content/new...ticles/bn9/2016/1/7/execution_day_arrive.html

 

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Bill VarianVerified account ‏@VarianTimes 5m5 minutes ago
Bolin execution on hold while U.S. Supreme Court considers latest appeal. Could still take place tonight. http://www.tampabay.com/news/publics...upreme/2260491 … @TB_Times

Execution of Oscar Ray Bolin under delay for final appeal to U.S. Supreme Court
Times staff
Thursday, January 7, 2016 7:51pm

"The execution of Oscar Ray Bolin Jr. was on hold Thursday night as prison officials await a ruling on a final appeal by his lawyers to the U.S. Supreme Court.

His execution was set to take place at 6 p.m. at Florida State Prison in Starke. But by 7:30 p.m., the Supreme Court had not decided on his latest request for a stay of execution. The case was before Associate Justice Clarence Thomas. Bolin's other state and federal appeals have all been exhausted.

His execution could still go forward Thursday night..."

http://www.tampabay.com/news/public...-delay-for-final-appeal-to-us-supreme/2260491

G. Host ‏@ghostie55555 2m2 minutes ago
The USSC is waiting for the final reply from the defense. Then they will decide and issue the decision.
#OscarRayBolin

Gloria Gomez, FOX 13Verified account ‏@ggome13 32s33 seconds ago
Attys for Killer Oscar Ray Bolin confirm ALL Supreme Court justices reviewing stay of execution appeal not only Justice Clarence Thomas.

On eve of execution, survivor of serial killer Oscar Ray Bolin Jr. recounts her ordeal

"...It's not a celebratory thing for me," the woman who survived the Ohio attack told the Tampa Bay Times on the eve of Bolin's execution. "But you won't find me mourning him, either."
• • •

The Times is withholding the name of the woman in the Ohio attack because the newspaper does not identify victims of sexual assault...

In the years after the Ohio attack, the woman said she suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder. She didn't leave her house for a year.

But she still testified in the penalty phase at four of his retrials in the Florida murders.

"I felt a calling to be the voice for those who could no longer tell what had happened to them," she wrote in an email.

She also befriended the mothers of Bolin's three victims.

"She's all of our daughters now," Matthews' mother, Kathleen Reeves, said in 1999.

Today, the woman refuses to let the 1987 attack define her. She no longer lives in Ohio. She is married to the man who was her boyfriend in 1987. She is working on a blog about her ordeal. She hopes it will help others.

She opposes the death penalty. "It's not who I am," she said.

But she hoped for peace to be brought to the mothers of Bolin's victims:

"My thoughts will be with them on that day, and their girls will forever be in my heart.".."

http://www.tampabay.com/news/courts/...lin-jr/2260290

 

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Michelle Foster ‏@fosterzgurl 5m5 minutes ago
Minutes Before Six: The Day God Died guy up next for execution got stay yrs ago. Read abt his fear. #OscarRayBolin http://minutesbeforesix.blogspot.gr/...-died.html?m=1 …

JAN 7 2016, 8:09 PM ET
Florida Set to Execute Serial Killer Oscar Ray Bolin Thursday Night

Unless the U.S. Supreme Court issues a last-minute reprieve, Florida serial killer Oscar Ray Bolin will become the first inmate executed in 2016.

Bolin, 53, had his last meal of rib-eye steak, baked potato, lemon meringue pie and Coca-Cola at 10 a.m., while meeting with his wife, Rosalie, who married him in 1996, when he was already on Death Row...

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/let...-night-n492386

(Rosalie Bolin, the wife of Oscar Ray Bolin Jr. is consoled by Dawn Hart, left, as Martha Mortenson, right, looks on after Oscar Ray Bolin Jr. was found guilty in the killing of Natalie Blanche Holley Thursday, April 19, 2012, in Tampa. CHRIS URSO / AP, file)

 

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Koncrete ‏@Koncreteinc 1m1 minute ago
#OscarRayBolin

David Pontious ‏@DavidPontious 7m7 minutes ago
We are still awaiting word on the #OscarRayBolin scheduled execution in Florida. 2 petitions are pending before the Supreme Court.
Bay News 9Verified account ‏@BN9 58m58 minutes ago
#BREAKING: Stay denied for Oscar Ray Bolin, execution can go forward: http://www.baynews9.com/content/news...id=twitter_BN9 …

Hernando Phoenix ‏@voidra 48m48 minutes ago
#SCOTUS denial in #OscarRayBolin #stayofexecution

Hernando Phoenix ‏@voidra 45m45 minutes ago
Bolin has chance to make last statement before execution. Witnesses may watch through window in next room. #OscarRayBolin #ExecutionDay

Kendra Conlon ‏@KendraWTSP 43m43 minutes ago
.@AGPamBondi tells #WTSP that right now #OscarRayBolin is in the process of being put to death by lethal injection.

Hernando Phoenix ‏@voidra 42m42 minutes ago
it's done. Florida executes Oscar Ray Bolin Jr. for murdering 3 women in the Tampa Bay area in 1986. #oscarraybolin

Kendra Conlon ‏@KendraWTSP 41m41 minutes ago
.@AGPamBondi: #OscarRayBolin has been executed. Time of death 10:16pm. Victims' families waiting nearly 30 yrs #WTSP

Dan SullivanVerified account ‏@TimesDan 24m24 minutes ago Florida, USA
Before dying, Bolin looked at his attorney, Bjorn Brunvand, mouthed "thank you," @TB_Times #OscarRayBolin
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State executes Tampa Bay area convicted killer Oscar Ray Bolin (with clip- "victim's mother speaks")

"STARKE, Fla. (WFLA) – After a four-hour delay due to a last-minute appeal to the U.S Supreme Court, serial killer Oscar Ray Bolin died by lethal injection at the Florida State Prison at 10:16 p.m. Thursday.

The execution took 11 minutes in a room packed with his victims’ relatives as well as his attorney and members of the media. When asked if he wanted to make a final statement, Bolin replied “No Sir.” He closed his eyes, stopped breathing and turned ashen before a doctor declared him dead..."

http://wfla.com/2016/01/07/the-late...serial-killer-has-final-meal-visits-from-kin/

 

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Why was Oscar Ray Bolin's execution delayed?

"...Delayed executions aren't the norm, but they're not unusual, said Robert Dunham, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center.

They're also not necessarily an indication that the justices found the defendant's final arguments compelling, or were debating the merits of the briefs for hours. Sometimes, Dunham said, it takes hours just to reach all of the justices and collect their votes.

What happened in Bolin's case has happened in others where the Supreme Court received the defendant's appeal at the last minute, Dunham said. Last month, the court delayed the execution of Brian Keith Terrell, 47, of Georgia until 11 p.m., when the court denied his appeals.

Terrell died at 12:52 a.m. the next day after the nurse administering the lethal injection drugs struggled for about an hour to insert an IV.

In Bolin's case, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied his request for a stay Thursday morning, the day the governor's death warrant said Bolin was to be executed. That left his lawyers with mere hours to appeal to the Supreme Court, setting in motion a review process that looked to outsiders like late-night foot dragging, but to the justices might have felt like a sprint to the execution chamber.."

http://www.tampabay.com/news/courts...ke-so-long-to-execute-oscar-ray-bolin/2260573